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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book III, Chapter 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As explained by Aristotle in Book I, Chapter 10, what was the concern of the legal rhetorician?
(a) Either proving or disproving wrongdoing.
(b) Neither proving nor disproving wrongdoing.
(c) Only proving wrongdoing.
(d) Only disproving wrongdoing.

2. What did Aristotle think was wrong with the metaphor that compared a man with a square?
(a) He thought it was boring.
(b) He thought it was too complex.
(c) He thought it was too simple.
(d) He thought it was confusing.

3. In comparison to the other appeals, how much did Aristotle think that rhetoric resembled the dialectic in the logical appeal?
(a) Rhetoric resembled dialectic the least in the logical appeal.
(b) Rhetoric most closely resembled dialectic in the logical appeal.
(c) Rhetoric resembled dialectic exactly in the logical appeal.
(d) Rhetoric resembled dialectic the same in the logical appeal.

4. According to Aristotle, what was epideictic rhetoric most likely to deal with?
(a) Small crowds of educated people.
(b) Large crowds of educated people.
(c) Small crowds of uneducated people.
(d) Large crowds of uneducated people.

5. As explained in Book II, Chapter 4, what type of friends were people most likely to choose?
(a) Ones that had a different social or economic status.
(b) Ones that had a similar social or economic status.
(c) Ones that associated with people different from them.
(d) Ones that associated with the same people as them.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Aristotle in Book I, Chapter 1, what was not a concern of rhetoric?

2. Based on the information in Book I, Chapter1, for which side(s) of a question could rhetoric allow a person to make good cases?

3. Which type(s) of happiness was Aristotle referring to in Book I, Chapter 5?

4. What definition did Aristotle provide for rhetoric in Book I, Chapter 2?

5. As explained by Aristotle in Book II, Chapter 18, what was political argumentation concerned with?

(see the answer key)

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